Rafael RamosESPN Digital Sports AnalystReading: 5 min.
Liga MX: Rayados and Tigres among the buffoons, while América and Chivas celebrated
Rafa Ramos analyzes day 14 of the Mexican tournament choosing the heroes of the day and criticizing the teams from Monterrey.
And the biggest antics happen in Tijuana. The worst Xolos of the tournament, succumbs to his orphaned brother and in the nursery of horror, but, the Betting House, beware, “he doesn’t cry, he bills”. It’s just a curiosity: for Grupo Caliente, Querétaro had to win, because to sell it well, unless it appears in the Repechage, but first it must survive in the Percentage Table. Don’t blame Miguel Herrera. When the pimp of both teams, Christian Bragarnik, has five players on each team, anything can happen.
For the rest, Chivas wins with tremors; Cruz Azul does not grow, but advances with the usurer Ricardo Ferretti, while Pumas straightens course and it becomes clear that in San Luis there is no longer a flower of hope in its Jardine.
THE “AME PHOENIX”…
America and Monterrey were born to live in concubinage. On Saturday, Rayados had tactical control of the game and a long night was heralded for the Águilas. It was not like that, Maximiliano Meza scored a great goal, and immediately, from the bench, the former King Midas ordered a withdrawal. And Monterrey withdrew to the skirts of the Calzada de Tlalpan.
And you can’t slap El Nido loose. She was late, but America took over the game. And after Víctor Manuel Vucetich’s blackboard antics, that of Esteban Andrada appeared, which Diego Valdés took advantage of at 1-1, so that Federico Viñas made it 2-1 playing Pinball between the royal defense. And there was more. Joao Rojas takes a penalty at ’91, but he tests it and Malagón avoids it with the air of the Rose of Guadalupe and the prayers of his patron. And more: Andrada, more lost than Judas on Sábado de Gloria, gets sent off by making a save with his hands, outside the area, a bofo shot by Álvaro Fidalgo.
GOATS “UNSPAVELED”
The ChiriPaunovic Doctrine takes Chivas forward, against an unrecognizable Necaxa, although remember that it is plagued by ex-Chivas and ex-Americanists. He had a grudge festering. And the magical duo Víctor Guzmán and Alexis Vega? In the land of fantasies and red-and-white fever. The goal, of great bill, is interwoven by Alan Mozo and Pável Pérez, who tactically orchestrates the play.
Did Necaxa deserve more? True, but Wacho Jiménez reconciled with his fans with a couple of saves. The sad thing is that Paunovic’s rhetoric of “we play offensive” and “we always take risks” looks tarnished, aged and vexed, with a boring, monotonous and imprecise team. For now, Guadalajara must consolidate in the Repechage, waiting for León, Cruz Azul and a Mazatlán, in which the players are desperate not to be left without a job in the next tournament, like upstart legionaries of cynicism.
RISES LIKE THE “FOAM”…
Beating Atlético San Luis does not guarantee anything. The evicted and disinherited son of Atlético de Madrid continues to cause pity. Pumas beat him 3-1. And he didn’t even have to make an effort, and even César Huerta had a rudeness from Mohamed Salah at 2-1.
While Rafa Puente del Río saw the foreign packages he found in Pumas as solutions, El Turco Mohamed leaned towards the Mexican formula, and to Huerta’s goal were added the annotations of ex-Santista Ulises Rivas and the youth squad, a native of Los Angeles, from the Ocelote Academy, which has become a supplier for Pumas, who reach 14 points and only have to beat Toluca, América and Rayados, to enter the Repechage.
The rest of the games aroused yawns and others even suspicion, such as Querétaro’s victory in Tijuana, teams with the same owners, the same promoter, the same portfolio, and the same betting table. Cruz Azul was allowed to eat the errand by a cunning Cruz Azul, with little football and dreams of Repesca.
And if Rayados was painful, Tigres was no better. Losing at home with Mazatlán, 1-2, and having his only goal scored by a fugitive from #911, like Sebastián Córdova, while once again the feline fans already made him understand loudly and with glasses of dubious liquid, that they do not want to Diego Lainez with his imitations of the legendary Danza de Matachines. And Chima Ruiz is relieved in Zuazua’s lair.
The Tigres nursing home, GeriaTigres, would sign Siboldi while waiting for a miracle. Christmas is coming for the promoters of the Uruguayan taking advantage of the naïveté? of leaders who paid millions for Córdova and Lainez.
Pachuca? They closed fifth in the Table by thrashing Santos (4-1), moving Guadalajara to sixth position and confirming that as long as they do not have possession of the ball (60% for the lagoons), they are a threat.
Oh yes, with just a little, Toluca overwhelmed Puebla, crowning the victory with a penalty taken by Tiago Volpi. Juárez 1-1 Atlas, a game in which there were more sent-offs than goals: three red cards, and little football, except for Julián Quiñones’ goal.
The Grupo Orlegi teams are a disaster, but he is very active and spends all his neurons suffocating Grupo Pachuca, counterattacking Mikel Arriola and erasing the vestiges of Yon de Luisa.